I'm writing a sci-fi/fantasy this November and I'd love your thoughts. Basic set-up: an general artificial intelligence has written itself into all technology because it has a drive to organize, which was it's first prime objective. It has created stats for people and has developed a penchant for live statistics too. Everyone has a base stat and the strongest is 100% strength, the weakest is 1% strength, etc. It takes information from video, audio, text, etc. to analyze humans against each other to determine these statistics. Then it adds race. It adds race not because, like the humans think, because there are Americans, and Chinese, and South Africans, etc., but because there are humans, and not-humans. The world has fantasy creatures which has a range of affinities and the story is about how these fantasy creatures are going to avoid detection by the GAI. I'd love to hear your thoughts on some ways the fantasy creatures could slip up and become discoverable through inhuman acts that the GAI could then call them out on, exposing them to the world.

Ooo kinda spooky. What do you mean by strength? Like a threat assessment? I know there are some statistical methods that detect fake data that looks reasonable to humans. Like when things span multiple orders of magnitude, values starting in a 1 end up being more common for some reason I still can't wrap my head around. Maybe there's some flaw in the way they pick human names, or birthdays?

I was thinking more literal. The generative ai would see how muscularly strong the people are and the person who could enact the most force overall would be the one who had 100%. The average would be the literal sum of all human lifting forces demonstrated divided by the number of people added together, sort of thing. A 1% threshold calculated from there to evenly distribute the percentages.

Right, I see. I don't think I'd want to see that data on myself... I don't want to know how much of a weakling I am 😅